The odd man out (in quality), Stanley Kramer's The Domino Principle taps into the some of the same paranoiac conspiracy gunk that glops up our thinking to this day, and drives the same ground as The Parallax View, Executive Action, Enemy of the State, JFK, etc.
Should I go on?
And yet, I remember enjoying the book and the movie, not only because I was one of the unwashed masses way back when, believing in anything conspiratorial, but because it seemed out of the norm. I was raised on TV cop dramas, where everything was wrapped up in 52 minutes and I could count the times the bad guys won on one hand.
I won't give enough away to have to mark the spoiler box, but The Domino Principle, headed by Gene Hackman and followed by a really strong cast (except for Candice Bergen, who is utterly cringeworthy), has bad guys fighting worse guys--a concept foreign to my prime time sensibilities.
I remember liking the movie, but after thirty years, I'll be lying if I told you I can remember much about it.
With that in mind, I'd say rent it--if you can find it--and throw in Parallax and Executive for a triple-header of evil industrialists, mind-controllers, and sad, little heroes trying to avoid getting squashed.
Then return to the real world and repeat the following:
"Oswald acted alone."
Should I go on?
And yet, I remember enjoying the book and the movie, not only because I was one of the unwashed masses way back when, believing in anything conspiratorial, but because it seemed out of the norm. I was raised on TV cop dramas, where everything was wrapped up in 52 minutes and I could count the times the bad guys won on one hand.
I won't give enough away to have to mark the spoiler box, but The Domino Principle, headed by Gene Hackman and followed by a really strong cast (except for Candice Bergen, who is utterly cringeworthy), has bad guys fighting worse guys--a concept foreign to my prime time sensibilities.
I remember liking the movie, but after thirty years, I'll be lying if I told you I can remember much about it.
With that in mind, I'd say rent it--if you can find it--and throw in Parallax and Executive for a triple-header of evil industrialists, mind-controllers, and sad, little heroes trying to avoid getting squashed.
Then return to the real world and repeat the following:
"Oswald acted alone."